Speaker for September 19 Mycena News MSSF Meeting The Mycological Society of San Francisco September, 2006, vol 57:09 MycoDigest: Pioneers of Mycology: W.A. Murrill and the Fungi of the Pacific Coast

Peter Werner

In previous MycoDigest columns, we’ve focused on recent discoveries in myco- logical science. Upcoming columns will continue in this vein, but in this column, I want to introduce a new series of articles I’m calling “Pioneers of California Mycology”, Jennifer Kerekes focusing on the early discoverers and contributors to our knowledge of the mycota of California. This knowledge is the result of over a century of mycological Jennifer Kerekes, a graduate exploration by both academic mycologists and serious amateurs. All of our distinct student at San Francisco State California species and collecting spots were once unknown and undescribed and University and winner of the MSSF there are interesting stories to be told about their discovery. In future columns, I will scholarship, will be our speaker at cover the stories of HW Harkness, Lee Bonar, Elizabeth Morse, William Bridge the September general meeting. She Cooke, Harry Thiers, and other great figures who made invaluable contributions to will be presenting the results of her California mycology over the years. master’s thesis on the genus Crinipellis from Southeast Asia under the William Alphonso Murrill is one of the great names in the history of mycology, direction of Dr. Dennis Desjardin. having over the course of his career, founded the journal Mycologia, published dozens Her talk will also include a basic of papers, originated scores of new names of fungal taxa, and traveled extensively to introduction to different molecular describe the mycota of Europe and the Americas. He was also an early “mycological techniques and will describe how evangelist” – a charismatic figure and frequent public speaker whose knowledge and molecular techniques have improved enthusiasm for the study of fungi broadened the interest in mycology in a nation with our understanding of fungal little established tradition of mushroom hunting. evolution, sometimes in surprising ways, and also have presented new Murrill began his career as a curator at the Botanical Garden, challenges. eventually rising to the rank of Assistant Director of the Garden. Since Murrill filled mycologist Franklin Sumner Earle’s position at NYBG after the latter had left, Murrill For a photo of Crinipellis was put in charge of mycological research at the Garden. As part of his work for the perniciosa, please turn to page 3. NYBG, Murrill traveled extensively to collect and describe new species of fungi. He traveled throughout the eastern United States, made several trips to Europe, as well as Mexico and the Caribbean, and to the Pacific Coast. CONTENTS It was during one of these journeys that Murrill had the first of several disappearances. At some point during his 1918 trip to Europe, his usual packages of Speaker for September 19...... 1 collections and correspondence ceased arriving and he failed to arrive back in Europe MycoDigest: W.A. Murrill...... 1 as scheduled. Inquiries to his colleagues at European herbaria failed to turn up any news of his whereabouts. He turned up several months later back in New York with MSSF Culinary Group...... 2 news that he had fallen severely ill with a kidney condition and had been held up in Foragers' Report ...... 3 hospital in a small French village without means of communication. Unfortunately, he also returned to find that his wife had left and sued for divorce and that the NYBG Cultivation Corner...... 4 Continued on page2 Healthy Fungi...... 5 MycoDigest is a section of the Mycena News dedicated to the scientific reiew of Calendar ...... 8 recent mycological information. Page 2 The Mycena News, September, 2006 The MSSF MycoDigest: W.A. Murrill Continued from page 1 had fired him from his position as Assistant Director, demoting him to a token public outreach position at a much-reduced Culinary Group salary.

If you are new to the MSSF you may not be acquainted After 5 more years in this capacity, Murrill handed in his with one of its most lively sub-groups, the Culinary Group, resignation from the Garden and soon disappeared again. This open to all members interested in the gastronomical aspects of time, Murrill abandoned academic work entirely and his mushrooming. On the first Monday night of each month, from whereabouts were unknown to his colleagues back in New September to May (except for December when we have the York. This would have been the end of an otherwise great general group’s grand holiday feast) we meet in the Hall of academic career, but for a chance event a few years later. Flowers, Golden Gate Park, to enjoy each other’s company and have a delicious meal. In 1926, George F Weber, a mycologist and plant pathologist from University of , was visiting a Gainesville We are united in our love of cooking as well as our love resort called the Tin Can Tourist Camp along with his wife. In of mushrooms. All participants contribute to the feast either as the recreation hall, they came across and unkempt and haggard, part of the team that prepares the dinner or by bringing an yet “tall, robust, dignified, pleasant stranger providing a piano appetizer to share. At the dinner meetings members contribute concert for the transient tourists”. Weber soon recognized the ideas and suggestions for the upcoming menus and prepare stranger as none other than Murrill. food that they, with help, would like to cook. Traditionally, the dinners have been designed to take advantage of the wild The next Summer, while convalescing from his recurring mushrooms available at the time as well as the best and the kidney problem at the University of Florida Infirmary, Murrill freshest food of the season. The menus are centered on found that it was now the peak of the Florida mushroom mushrooms, ethnic foods, a particular main ingredient or a season, and asked Weber for some collecting supplies, a desk, close holiday. The aim is for “chef-for-the-night” members to and a microscope. Weber set Murrill up with a permanent desk prepare menus and cook foods they love. And, we usually have and research space in the only spot he could find – a landing on a lovely punch served with the appetizers. a stairway near the University Herbarium. Weber also arranged for a remaining $600 in publication royalties to be sent to Murill To be part of the fun and food, you must be a current and managed to get a small stipend for him. Murrill permanently MSSF member. The annual fee is $12.00 ($6.00 for seniors) and relocated to Florida, building a small house, and spending the there is a charge of $14.00 per dinner to cover the cost of using last 34 years of his life there. the facility and the dinner’s ingredients. Diners bring their own cutlery, plates, etc and their choice of beverage. Murrill became a familiar figure around the Gainesville campus, known by many simply as “the Mushroom Man”. All members participate at least once a year in the During the mushroom season, he would spend the morning preparation of the main dinner. Members also bring appetizers gathering fungi in and around the campus, then return to his for dinners, using mushrooms if possible, when not involved desk to describe and curate the collections. He would rarely in the main menu preparation. return home during this time, but would work late into the evening, then fall asleep on a couch in the student union. The The Culinary Group is a participatory cooking group, not next morning the incoming students would rouse him and just an eating group. Members should expect to cook for often treat him to breakfast. dinners and help with special MSSF fund-raising events, such as the Holiday Dinner, the Mendocino Woodlands Foray and During his years at Gainesville, he was also frequently the annual Fair. visited by other eminent mycologists such as AH Smith, LR Hesler, and Rolf Singer. Singer was a frequent visitor, and the Come join us, you lovers of cooking and conviviality! For debates between Singer and Murrill on the finer points of more information, contact Pat George at 510-204-9130 or fungal were often made plain to anyone within [email protected]. shouting distance of the University Herbarium.

Murrill’s contribution to California mycology came out of his collecting trip to the Pacific Coast States in fall of 1911, while Mycena News is the newsletter of the Mycological he was still at NYBG. Murrill came to the West Coast by several Society of San Francisco and is published monthly from days train journey. He arrived first in Seattle in late October, September through May. Please email newsletter submis- collecting extensively at the University of Washington campus sions to: [email protected]. and in the city parks. He then traveled and collected in such locales as Mt Rainier, the Willamette Valley, and the Oregon Editor: William Karpowicz Coast before moving on to California. His collecting in Layout: Ruth Erznoznik California was limited to the Bay Area over the period of one Printing/Mailing: PDQ, Oakland, CA Continued on page 6 The Mycena News, September, 2006 Page 3 Some good summer rains in the Sierra will guarantee fall The Foragers’ Report porcini (a favorite bolete of many). Matsutakes are beginning to be found near Crescent, September 2006 Oregon. Sulfur shelves should be soon coming in our area. (Check your local listings as to exactly where . . . .) Patrick Hamilton Do we do a recipe to help herald our high hopes? Sure. How does that Kenny Loggins song go? “Summer Something really simple follows. Ever look behind yourself? thunder on moonlight days, northern lights, the skies ablaze . . . .” That was nice. And so would it be if we all get into a group hug and pray for late summer thunderstorms. Olive, Feta, Artichoke and Wild Mushroom Pizza

Here we are. Again. The scents and hopes of the new Serving Size: 3 Preparation time: 0:30 season are upon, around, about, and within us. Catch that whiff? No? You’ve got to train yourself to tune in the nostrils. Ingredients: Gather into your lungs and hearts the umami of fungi—those difficult to define, mostly mental, aromas of “forest floor,” 1 Boboli crust (“thin” is good) nuttiness,” “farinaceous,” etc. Smell it? Yes! 1 6.5 oz jar, marinated artichoke hearts, sliced in half 1 cup feta cheese, crumbled No? Well in that case you are just not in the anticipatory 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes, marinated, chopped large mood needed to propel yourself into this new period of 1 cup wild mushrooms, mixed, sautéed chopped potential porcini picking. This is, of course, going to become 2 tomatoes, medium, garden fresh, sliced the season that will be known as “2006-2007.” Our mushroom 2 1/2 tsp Mediterranean herbs, mixed seasons take us from the present to the middle of next year. 1/2 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and chopped Kind of like a fiscal year, but not. Better. No accountants. Preparation Method: So what should we expect for us here soon? We had a two month longer-than-usual rainy season, a hotter-than-Hell ten- Pre-heat your oven to 450 degrees. Place crust on baking day period in July, and regular morning fog now—hmmm. stone. Brush with some of the artichoke marinade. Top with How will that affect the fungal fruiting? Who knows? cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, herbs, and artichokes. Drizzle with remaining marinade. Bake about 10 minutes. Let’s look into our special mushroom clubs’ crystal balls (available at [email protected] for an, as yet, undeter- mined price). Turning it over, floating the flakey things, looking through the dandruffy murk we can see . . . . Huh? Santa Claus? Must be the wrong ball.

Sorry, there is no such thing as a divining orb that can help predict. No seer of things to be soon seen. Nope—we got to use our fungal history. We need to look back to see ahead. (But don’t crook your neck doing this and put yourself on the disabled list even before the season starts.) Get out your mushroom hunting notes from years past and try to discern fruiting patterns. Don’t have those notes? You can simply look at all the old September “Mycena News” posted on MykoWeb and read about what we reporting scribers have scribbled for what seems like years and years.

Is our mushroom season just beginning now or has it been going all the while? Never stopped, maybe?

I think that.

Folks have found mushrooms almost whenever they have really looked all summer long. With our drippy coastal weather comes the miracle of rainless-day fungi. Princes and chanter- elles are just two fine edibles that have been recently picked at our magnificent Salt Point State Park. Crinipellis perniciosa/Scott Bauer. Page 4 The Mycena News, September, 2006 Cultivation Corner

Ken Litchfield

Here it is middle of the California summer dry season, three months since the last rain and probably at least 2 more till the next. Not usually considered the prime mushroom picking season. But it is prime time for shaggy fog drippers and red stinkies. And when you’re collecting them to eat or store you can also capture them to grow in your garden with a few simple tricks.

For fog dripper shaggies there’s two kinds: Shaggy Parasols and Shaggy Manes. The Shaggy Parasol, Chlorophyllum (Macrolepiota {Lepiota}) rachodes, can commonly be found in the fine duff under Monterey Cypress, in decaying woodchips, horse manure patches, and the broken down parts of grass clipping and compost piles. It seems to prefer the extra Macrolepiota rachodes/Dean Weir nitrogen of those materials compared with the raw cellulose of fresh wood chips, grass thatch, or straw. It can pop up fully developed overnight after a few evening hours of heavy fog or lawn sprinkling. They are typically white: stalked, veiled, and can still be harvested with the dark parts cut away and put in the capped mushrooms with tan to chocolate shingled patches on backyard compost pile. These mushrooms are difficult to the cap with a larger central patch of the same color. The preserve without turning to ink except by fresh freezing. They spherical cap unfurled is golf ball sized and up to 8 to 12 inches can be cooked just like Shaggy Parasols. across. When you pull them up, the bulbous base is often connected to other sprouted or unsprouted buttons in a clump, The Stinky Red Whiffle Ball and the Stinky Red Starfish, with attached. You can scrape the dirt off the bases ruber and archeri respectively, can be found in partially for more meat or cut the stems half way up. The cut surface decayed woodchips in park and garden pathways. The Whiffle turns bright orange, an identifying characteristic along with the Ball is typically tennis to softball sized, hollow, delicate in all white . The very similar looking, green spored, warmer manners, except odor, which is designed to attract loving puker, Chlorophyllum molybdites, is found out in the spreading flies. Hence the fragrance of dead stuff and feces. warmer valley areas and less in the cooler Bay Area. The Ditto for the Stinky Starfish which looks like someone flipped scrapings and the mycelium can be put into a plastic bag with a starfish on its back and it’s curling its legs round to try to flip a little substrate from the clump site. The plastic bag should be itself back over. Both stinky beasts are scarlet red fading to closed loosely so it doesn’t dry out but can breathe. Place it in pastel with age. The inside of the arms and lattice structure on the fridge to grow out slowly in the cold. Once the substrate both is coated with a slimy brown goo that coprophilic flies in the base is getting infiltrated with plenty of white mycelium find delectable but you probably won’t, at least at that stage of it can be placed in an appropriate spot in the home garden or development. However, both of these mushrooms form local park. These are excellent mushrooms sliced and diced and clutches of eggs, from hummingbird to goose in size, that are sautéed with butter and a little sherry; nutty Corbel is fine. If you quite delectable if you catch them before they hatch and take dry them they have the fragrance of freshly hulled pecans and wing. Slice them and fry them in hot oil like bacon filets. Soft can be powdered in a coffee grinder for use in sauces and or crispy they make great veggie BLT’s. Both stinkies are very seasoning. easy to grow. Wherever you find some eggs slide your fingers under the woodchip mulch and lift out the layer of mycelial The Shaggy Mane, Coprinus comatus, is a white bullet or lasagna in chunks or cakes a square foot or more in size. Usually torpedo shaped mushroom with brown shags on the upper the mycelium is massed into distinctive stringy rhizomorphs portion of the cap with a larger central top patch like the Shaggy that are easily transplanted into fresh wood chips in your garden Parasol. The two Shaggies do look quite similar but the Parasol or favorite uninoculated park. Be sure to soak the fresh chips cap is spherical and the Mane is taller two to three or more times well, like an overnight submerging, to break their surface than the diameter. The Mane cuts white with no stain and the tension before spreading them six to twelve inches deep. vertically cut stem is hollow with a characteristic long white “kite string” suspended in the middle of the hollow. These Don’t forget that we have the Mushroom Cultivation class mushrooms like similar growing habitat to Shaggy Parasols but at Merritt Community College in the Oakland Hills Sundays 10 prefer well-thatched lawns. They pop up in the early morning – 2 August 27 to December 17. You can take the class for grade, credit, or no credit and it is only $54 for the whole from overnight irrigation. But they usually don’t last the whole th day without turning to black ink from the bottom of the semester. Last day to sign up late is September 9 . For more unfurled cap up to the top. If you catch them in mid going they details about the class and registration read the Cultivation Corner for May 2006. The Mycena News, September, 2006 Page 5 Lower Cholesterol: Healthy Fungi Studies have suggested that substances found in white mushrooms have the ability to lower blood cholesterol levels Exotic mushrooms have been revered by herbalists for and so may be able to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. centuries, but a new report reveals that white and chestnut They are a valuable source of lovastatin, which has been found mushrooms may have powerful health giving properties too. to suppress the activity of the main cholesterol synthesis enzyme. Mushrooms are a good source of fibre, in particular Not only do cultivated mushrooms outstrip the exotics glucans giving them the potential to impact on cholesterol such as shiitake and oyster in some essential minerals and uptake from the diet. vitamins, but they also contain biologically active compounds which scientific studies suggest may have the potential to help Weight Loss: fight cancer and heart disease and improve well being - The preliminary findings of an 18 month American study although more research is needed in this area. into the potential role of mushrooms in weight loss diets, showed that when compared to other isocaloric diets, a The report called, Mushrooms: The New Superfood, has been mushroom based diet produced greatest loss of fat tissue. compiled by leading British nutritionist Jane Clarke. She and Other research showed that when men substituted a 4-ounce her team reviewed several major scientific studies around the grilled portabello mushroom for a 4-ounce grilled beef burger, world regarding the nutritional value and potential health they would save 18,400 calories in a year, a potential weight loss benefits of Agaricus bisporus mushrooms, the species that of 5.3 pounds and a yearly reduction of 2,725 grams of fat. accounts for 95% of all mushroom sales and includes white Mushrooms are low in calories, fat and sodium and are a good button mushrooms, crimini and portabello. source of phosphorus, riboflavin, thiamin, B-6, niacin and also provide , magnesium, manganese and some Vitamin C. Breast Cancer Fighter: Studies at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Reprinted courtesy the Mushroom Bureau, mushroom-uk.com Hope in Duarte, California, suggest that fresh white mush- rooms contain substances that are effective in reducing the activity of the enzyme aromatase that increases estrogen levels. High estrogen levels have been implicated in breast cancer risk. Initially, extracts from seven vegetables – onion, celery, carrot, pepper, broccoli, spinach and mushroom - were tested. The most effective aromatase inhibitor was found in white mush- rooms. The study’s second phase tested only mushrooms, MSSF Discussion Group including portabellos, shiitake, crimini, oyster, enoki, woodear, chanterelle, small white and large white mushrooms. The large white mushrooms emerged as the most potent inhibitor of on Yahoo Groups aromatase activity. The MSSF email discussion group facilitated through Ya- Prostrate Cancer Fighter: hoo Groups is a great way to keep in contact with other A series of experiments have been carried out to investi- members and is one of the primary ways in which members gate the effects of white button mushrooms in relation to keep up on news about the Society. The list features often- prostate cancer and suggested that they may play a chemo- intriguing discussion of fungal-related topics, tips about preventive role. Research at the American City of Hope current fungal activity, and up-to-the-minute news about Medical Center showed that two phytochemicals found in MSSF functions. white button mushrooms had the ability to suppress two enzymes – steroid 5alpha-reductase and aromatase - which The list is available in both individual-message and digest have been implicated in the incidence of prostate cancer. formats. Additionally, you can also subscribe to the group in “Special Notices” mode. That means that if you wish to Antioxidant Protection: receive only official announcements from the society and Mushrooms are a prime natural source of the powerful not email traffic from other members, you can subscribe antioxidant L-Ergothioneine , outdoing either of the two using this method. (Subscribers to the list in regular and foods previously believed to be better sources. Led by Profes- digest formats also, of course, receive official announce- sor Robert Beelman, researchers at Pennsylvania State Univer- ments in addition to posts from other members.) sity found that just a handful of white button mushrooms have To sign up, go to: about 12 times more of the antioxidant than wheat germ and four times more than chicken liver. Brown mushrooms con- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mssf/ tained even more, with exotics having the highest levels. L- Ergothioneine scavenges free radicals and protects the body’s Follow the link that says “Join This Group”. (You will need DNA from damage. As a result of this research, the university to sign up for a free Yahoo Groups membership if you do advocated that white mushrooms be elevated to “superfood” not have one already.) status. Page 6 The Mycena News, September, 2006 MycoDigest: W.A. Murrill Continued from page 2 fuligenescens, as well as a couple of new species that were named for La Honda, Agaricus hondensis (one of the more common “sickner” agarics of California woodlands) and Rhodocybe hondensis. Two days were required for examination and description of the collections made from that trip, after which, he journeyed back to New York.

Over the next several years, Murrill published a series of articles in Mycologia titled Agaricaceae of the Pacific Coast (plus an additional article on the polypores and boletes) in which he described the fungi collected on his West Coast journey, plus additional collections sent to him by correspondents. In all, these articles described some 250 species of fleshy basidiomycetes, about half of which were newly described species (though this number partly reflects Murrill’s tendency to be a “splitter”). Murrill’s articles on Pacific Coast fungi represented an important early landmark in the description of the California mycota.

Further Reading:

William Alphonso Murrill (1869 – 1957) Kimbrough JW. (2003). The twilight years of William Alphonso Murrill. Mushroom, The Journal 21(3):20–24, 30–33, 46. Available Botanical Abbreviation: Murrill from: http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/bestof/ Notable taxa discovered: Agaricus hondensis, Ganoderma tsugae, Murrillpt2.pdf Laetiporus, Marasmiellus Murrill WA. (1912). Collecting fungi on the Pacific Coast. week in late November, but the collections he made were Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 13:41–44. extensive. Roseteaching DW. (2003). William Alphonso Murrill: The On his arrival, he first set out for the UC Berkeley legend of the naturalist. Mushroom, The Journal 21(1):12–15. Herbarium where he examined many of HW Harkness’ early Available from: http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/ collections of California fungi. He next went collecting in bestof/Murrillpt1.pdf Golden Gate Park, but as it was early in the season and still dry, came back with only a few collections, though he commented Weber GF. (1961). William Alphonso Murrill. Mycologia 53:543– that “During a period of rainy weather, the extensive wooded 557. areas of this park should yield a rich harvest of fungi.”

The next day, he set out for Muir Woods, which Murrill described as “the famous collecting ground in the vicinity of Books at the MSSF Library San Francisco”. Today a short drive from San Francisco, getting there in 1911 was a bit more involved, involving a ferry Current members are encouraged to visit our library at the trip across the bay, a ride in an electric train up Mt Tamalpais, Randall Museum. We also accept donations of any mushroom and descent into Muir Woods by gravity car. There, he had related books you may not have used for a while, just bring better luck collecting than he had the previous day. His them along to the general meetings.All books borrowed over collections included several of the tiny colorful Lepiota the summer are now due.Contact Monique at characteristic of redwood forests, including two species new to [email protected] or 415-474-7220. science, L. castaneidisca and L. sequoiarum.

After a side trip to visit with Luther Burbank and a tour Officers: 2005-2006 of his gardens in Santa Rosa, he next headed south to Stanford University. There, Murrill met with pioneering California President: David Campbell 415-457-7662 botanist LeRoy Abrams and together the two set out on a [email protected] collecting trip to the Santa Cruz Mountains. The first stop was Vice President: J. R. Blair 650-728-9405 in a locale known as “Preston’s Ravine” on the Old La Honda [email protected] Road in Woodside, where they collected some 100 collections, Secretary: Carol Hellums 415-753-2144 including two species not described before or since, Pholiota [email protected] ornatula and Melanoleuca anomala. They then drove onward to La Treasurer: Hilary Somers 650-812-0402 Honda, where they even made some 50 more collections, [email protected] including several more undescribed Lepiota, L. reseofolia and L. The Mycena News, September, 2006 Page 7 Time to Renew Your Membership?

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MSSF Calendar, September, 2006 Monday, September 11. Culinary Group kick-off dinner. Friday-Sunday, November 10-12. Mendocinco Wood- 7 p.m., Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, 9th and Lincoln, lands Foray. Dr. Dennis Desjardin, foray mycologist. $140 SF. For reservations and more information, contact Pat includes lodging, meals, forays, classes, and special events. George at 510-204-9130 or [email protected]. Register online at www.mssf.org/mendo, or send check with your contact info to: MSSF c/o Randall Museum 199 Museum Tuesday, September 19. MSSF General Meeting. Randall Way SF, CA 94114. Info: 415-457-7662 or 707-829-2063. Museum. Mushroom Identification at 7:00 pm. Jennifer Kerekes will discuss the genus Crinipellis from Southeast Asia at 8:00 pm. Saturday-Sunday, December 2-3. MSSF Annual Fungus Fair. Oakland Museum. Stay tuned for more details.

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